BINBOGAMI GA! #9 - - Special Review

One of you lunatics described this show as being like the anime
equivalent of FAMILY GUY and I’m seeing that the comparison apply to more
than just the copious pop culture gags, now. Most times, I’m in favor of a show
being fleet-footed with its pacing. This time, however, I think we had two
premises that would’ve been great for two separate
episodes; but they ended up getting short-shifted here after being squeezed so tightly together.
As much I enjoy the unpredictability and odd pacing of the show, both qualities
seem to work against it this time.

(Seriously, it's settled into a funny rhythm by this point, grooving back and forth between bawdy farces and melodramas with hard-hitting morality plays).

Seriously, I’ll play armchair director here and say that I
would’ve made one episode goofing on sports anime/manga (with PRINCE OF TENNIS as the focus, of course) and then one
episode skewering “food fighters” like IRON CHEF, TORIKO, et al. Those are both genres (or sub-genres?) with a
host of tropes to poke fun at, but we didn't get to really dig into
either of them here.

And don’t try telling me that this show is less concerned with parody than it is with characters arcs or some such. First, the number of sight gags referencing ONE PIECE, JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE
and however many other titles I don’t recognize comprise about 60% of air time. Second, Sakura and Binbo's relationship isn't exactly evolving. Sure, I think it's funny how this has turned into some twisted buddy comedy starring the snooty popular girl and her inept guardian angle... but I'm not missing the fact that Sakura seems to forget every lesson she learns in this story.

Watch this episode, "Eh?! You Said, 'After All
This'?!" & "There's No Way That Happens After Just Two
Minutes!!!!" here and decide for yourself, then read my comments on the
previous episode here.

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I love how both Momiji and Kuroyuri are similar to each other. They both have casts on their limbs. Kuroyuri has cast on her left foot while Momiji has it on her right arm. Also, Momiji has Kumagai while Kuroyuri has Toady, a green frog that I wished it talked like Kermit the frog.

Yeah, I hope Kuroyuri shows up again. The more gods, the wackier this series get.

@DocHaus:

They did? I forgot to do the manga/anime differences. I need to find that Kuroyuri chapter.

I haven't read a lot of manga since I have this strange thing where I read the manga chapters that the anime covers to avoid spoiling myself or giving in to temptation.

With the way the anime progresses (an episode usually covers 2 chapters about 30-40 pages long) and we have 13 volumes, it's going to be like Beelzebub which I won't like. It might end in 24 or 40 episodes.